After Christ, God in Heavenletters™ has mentioned Christopher Columbus the most. According to Annette, Heaven’s archivist, there are four Heavenletters with Columbus in the title, and twenty more Heavenletters that refer to him.

Just off the top of my head, Einstein, Buddha, Mohammed and the other Great Ones have been mentioned. That’s all I can think of. There could be others. I just don’t recall anyone else.

I have often wondered why God especially chose Christopher Columbus? Of course, the name Christopher must have come from Christ. My guess is that Christopher means Light of Christ. (Not too bad a guess. I looked it up, and from the Greek, it means Christ-bearer.)

Over the years I’ve also noticed that my fondness for Christopher Columbus grows and grows. Until God spoke of Columbus, he was just a name. He wore odd-looking clothes and had three ships,  two of the names I still remembered – the Pinta, Santa Maria. I had to look up the third – the Nina.

Now I think Columbus must have been really special, perhaps a High Being.

I’ve included here a few dynamite quotes from the four Heavenletters:

Your Heart Is like Christopher Columbus (http://www.heavenarchives.org/y2006m12/y2006m12p04.html#e), HEAVEN #2218, December 20, 2006

Your heart is meant to be a great explorer. Your heart is like the scout who goes out to survey the territory. Your heart is like Christopher Columbus who discovered a New Land.

Because India was the land he sought — because he had a theory he wanted to prove — he was nevertheless open to what appeared. … Nothing has to be the way you think.

As you set forth on your voyage of God-discovery, leave your preconceived ideas behind.

…in your discovery of the God Who loves you, you sail past borders, and you discover yourself along the way. You are the land you have been seeking. It is yourself you seek, and it is yourself you find.

I, beloveds, am your Fortune…

[Incidentally, this particular Heavenletter above was written when I was in Germany on the book tour.]

Columbus Sailed the Mighty Seas (http://www.heavenarchives.org/y2005m03/y2005m03p03.html#c), HEAVEN #1590, March 13, 2005

Can you say that drive and purpose exist on the physical level? Are they not part of your will? Your will can be evidenced in the physical, but your will is an offshoot of Mine.

Columbus did not make excuses for himself…Excuses are thoughts. They are thoughts that say you are not mighty. No matter how verifiable, excuses are not true.

Had Columbus not sailed to the new world, he would have still maintained his belief that the Earth was round…Columbus would not have given up his perception of Truth. From where did his perception of Truth come, after all? Where does yours?

The idea you seek seeks you. What is proven is your intention. Truth does not truly come from instruments or calculations. There is a mind and a heart that make something of the calculations.

What is the role of the stars in the calculations of man? What can be calculated that does not come from the Heavens above?

And when a man sails on the seas, is he not sailing on the skies of Heaven?…

…something exists in Human Beings to discover new things, to venture where no one has ever ventured before. But, of course, you are all doing that. No one has lived your life before you.

Discovery is nice, but exploration is better.

Christopher Columbus and Christ (http://www.heavenarchives.org/y2001m09/y2001m09p02.html#c), HEAVEN #314, September 8, 2001

When you are without imagination, you are sticking to the flatness theory of the Earth. Being grounded is not being stuck to flatness. Columbus was not ungrounded. He was simply grounded in more than most of the folk of his time.

Folk lore has a truth in it. Folk lore is like a metaphor. The flatness of the earth was a metaphor for the flatness or sameness of thought.

It is folklore that says that mention of Christ is religion. Mention of Columbus is not religion. It is not science either. Columbus and Christ were two men who walked the earth with a vision far ahead of most. It is that simple. Columbus’ concern was with the Earth, and Christ’s was with Heaven…That is divine, to seek your own truest heart and to find it.

Who was his Pole Star if not I?

Love pulled Columbus, and love pulled Christ, and love pulls you.

Columbus (http://www.heavenarchives.org/y2001m03/y2001m03p02.html#a), HEAVEN #128, March 6, 2001

…Wherever you look, I am, but you do not see. Often you do not seek to see Me. You seek not to see Me. You seek to see only that which you have already seen, as if there is nothing more to be seen …

Right before your eyes am I. America was already there. It was nothing new. Columbus did not invent it. Eyes had to see that far, and then their feet could take them. Or a boat could take them. But first the vision of what already existed had to be seen. It had to be thought of.

The Founder of you wishes to be found.

In the twenty further references to Christopher Columbus that Annette will be giving us, I wonder what more God can possibly say about Columbus. Of course, God doesn’t run out of things to say!

Thanks so much, Annette, for your help.